Hip Roof Bearing Walls

A hip roof is a kind of roof whose slides come with a gentle slope and it tends to slope down toward the walls.

Hip roof bearing walls.

However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls. The wall you are wanting to remove is not a bearing wall by looking at the framing in the attic and the roof lines of the house. A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof. Load bearing walls are those walls in a structure that support the weight of the structure above.

These walls directly support roof trusses or rafters. Hip roofs require an extremely complicated system of trusses and rafters. Just to be on the side of caution i would install an 8ft 4x4 directly centered under the splice with lag bolts and remove the vertical. This kind of roof doesn t have any vertical slides or gables.

Roof structure types for load bearing walls load bearing walls. Side walls are primary load bearing walls in simple gable end framing but hip roofs and complex roof lines depend on more than just the side. A gable roof is a roof that slopes downward from a central ridge to a building s exterior walls on two.